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+++ b/fs/cifs/TODO
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version 1.16 May 27, 2004
+version 1.22 July 30, 2004 
 
 A Partial List of Missing Features
 ==================================
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ is a partial list of the known problems and missing features:
 a) Support for SecurityDescriptors for chmod/chgrp/chown so
 these can be supported for Windows servers
 
-b) Better pam/winbind integration
+b) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
+better)
 
 c) multi-user mounts - multiplexed sessionsetups over single vc
 (ie tcp session) - prettying up needed
@@ -32,42 +33,37 @@ style byte range lock differences
 
 h) quota support
 
-i) support for the Linux 2.5 kernel new feature get_xattr and set_xattr
-which will allow us to expose dos attributes as well as real
-ACLs. This support has been started in the current code, but is
-ifdeffed out.
-
-k) finish writepages support (multi-page write behind for improved
+j) finish writepages support (multi-page write behind for improved
 performance) and syncpage
 
-l) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the
+k) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the
 extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases.
 
-m) finish support for IPv6.  This is mostly complete but
+l) finish support for IPv6.  This is mostly complete but
 needs a simple inet_pton like function to convert ipv6
 addresses in string representation.
 
-o) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the
+m) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the
 oplock breaks coming from windows srv.  Piggyback identical file
 opens on top of each other by incrementing reference count rather
 than resending (helps reduce server resource utilization and avoid
 spurious oplock breaks).
 
-p) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read
+o) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read
 at a time when 8 pages or more are requested.  Evaluate whether
 reads larger than 16K would be helpful.
 
-q) For support of Windows9x/98 we need to retry failed mounts
+p) For support of Windows9x/98 we need to retry failed mounts
 to *SMBSERVER (default server name) with the uppercase hostname
 in the RFC1001 session_init request.
 
-r) Add Extended Attributed support (for storing UID/GID info
-to Windows servers)
+q) Add support for storing symlink and fifo info to Windows servers 
+in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize.
 
-s) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
+r) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
 will autorefresh
 
-t) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
+s) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
 the CIFS statistics
 
 KNOWN BUGS (updated May 27, 2004)
@@ -82,16 +78,19 @@ but recognizes them
 succeed but still return access denied (appears to be Windows 
 server not cifs client problem) and has not been reproduced recently.
 NTFS partitions do not have this problem.
-4) debug connectation lock test case 10 which fails against
+4) debug connectathon lock test case 10 which fails against
 Samba (may be unmappable due to POSIX to Windows lock model
 differences but worth investigating).  Also debug Samba to 
 see why lock test case 7 takes longer to complete to Samba
 than to Windows.
+5) implement search rewind (seeking backward in a readdir), which is
+necessary for one of the "special" subsection of posix file API
+tests in the Connectathon nfs test suite.
 
 Misc testing to do
 ==================
 1) check out max path names and max path name components against various server
-types. Return max path name in stat -f information
+types. Try nested symlinks (8 deep). Return max path name in stat -f information
 
 2) Modify file portion of ltp so it can run against a mounted network
 share and run it against cifs vfs.
@@ -102,5 +101,6 @@ and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than
 negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers.
 
 4) More exhaustively test the recently added NT4 support against various
-NT4 service pack levels.
+NT4 service pack levels, and fix cifs_setattr for setting file times and 
+size to fall back to level 1 when error invalid level returned.